The outbreak of deadly Covid 19 virus has left bosses of Jharkhand Police deeply worried as a large number of police officials and personnel have fallen prey to the virus.
Even a few days back the DGP Niraj Sinha and his wife were hospitalized after recurring fever and they were tested positive to virus. According to the official figure the second wave of Covid 19 virus affected 662 police personnel and 22 of them lost their life.
Other than the DGP, the figure includes seven SP rank officials, one ASP rank official, 23 DSP, 43 inspector, 129 sub inspectors, 50 assistant sub inspectors,46 constables, 337 jawans, seven drivers and 19 fourth grade employees.
As per the Jharkhand Police headquarter SP Latehar Prashant Anand and his wife and special branch SP Shivani Tiwari, Ramgarh SP Prabhat Kumar, Koderma SP Ehtesham Waquarib, JAP 6 commandant Anshuman Kumar besides SP rank official At RRB and Jaguar are also affected by Covid 19 virus.
JPA 7, Hazaribagh police and Dhanbad police are among the few lucky units of Jharkhand police that so far has not reported any covid case among staffs and officials.
On Thursday two inspector rank officials Naresh Yadav posted in Deoghar and Vijay Dip Toppo posted in Koderma lost their life. From April 2020 till now a total of 6458 police personnel have been affected by Covid 19.
To protect life of police personnel now Jharkhand police headquarter has directed all district police besides, CID, special branch, Jaguar, STF, JAP and others to submit vaccination report of police personnel. The police headquarter has directed to ensure first and second vaccination of all police personnel. So far roughly, 65000 police personnel have taken the first dose of vaccine whereas around 40000 have taken their second dose. But still a large number of personnel have to take their first dose.